Pierre le Grand, L'education, L'homme, L'oeuvre

Kazimierz Waliszewski

Paris : Librarie Plon, 1897

Bound in red leather over marbled boards. 5 raised bands. Gilt lettered and decorated. Top edge gilt. Marbled end pages. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Light rubbing to leather with loss. viii, 633 pages, frontispiece (portrait), 24 cm. 

The first pirate that was known upon Tortuga was Pierre le Grand, or Peter the Great. He was born at Dieppe in Normandy. That action which rendered him famous was his taking the vice-admiral of the Spanish flota, near the Cape of Tiburon, on the west side of Hispaniola; this he performed with only one boat, and twenty-eight men. Now till that time the Spaniards had passed and repassed with all security, through the channel of Bahama; so that Pierre le Grand setting out to sea by the Caycos, he took this great ship with all the ease imaginable.